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The Chaco County Department of Public Health confirmed the first case of monkeypox in the county territory, in a 59-year-old immunocompromised patient.
The Chaco Ministry stated that the man has a history of traveling to the province of Buenos Aires and the city of Bariloche, who is in good health and spends home isolation with close contact, according to the protocol in force.
Thus, the confirmation was confirmed after the sample was taken at the “Julio C. Perrando” Hospital in Resistencia, which was sent to the laboratory of “Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán”.
As of November 22, 895 cases of monkeypox have been recorded across the country With only one death of a patient with risk factors, while the average number of positives last week was 49.
Regarding the transmission of the disease, it must be remembered that it occurs from person to person, through close contact with lesions and mucous membranes of a sick person; By sharing contaminated objects, or through short-term respiratory secretions (droplets), and it has an incubation period of 4 to 21 days.
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